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“A new online resource from the Federal Reserve provides practical answers to questions about credit reports, credit scores, and the importance of protecting personal credit histories. The Consumer’s Guide to Credit Reports and Credit Scores describes the content of a credit report, explains how a credit score is used, and discusses the role of credit …
Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin At the National Consumer Law Center’s Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, November 12, 2010: Problems in the Mortgage Servicing Industry “The number of foreclosures initiated on residential properties has soared from about one million in 2006, the year that house prices peaked, to 2.8 million last year. There were 1.2 …
Governor Daniel K. Tarullo At the George Washington University Center for Law, Economics, and Finance Conference on the Dodd-Frank Act, Washington, D.C., November 12, 2010 – Next Steps in Financial Regulatory Reform: “The financial crisis showed that the concentrated, almost all-consuming regulatory focus on refining bank capital requirements in Basel II had come at the …
Well’s Vegetarian Thanksgiving: “Celebrate Thanksgiving with vegetarian and vegan dishes from some of your favorite chefs and cookbook authors. Find all the recipes from Wells Vegetarian Thanksgiving series or go to the Well blog to learn more about the series. New dishes will be added daily until Thanksgiving Day.”
Location-Based Preferences in Federal and Federally Funded Contracting: An Overview of the Law, John R. Luckey, Legislative Attorney; Kate M. Manuel, Legislative Attorney, October 1, 2010 “The recession that began in December 2007 has prompted increased interest among some Members of Congress and their constituents in legal authorities that could require or allow federal agencies …
“SciTopics is a free, wiki-like knowledge-sharing service for the scientific community. It offers distilled, authoritative and up-to-date research summaries on a wide range of scientific topics. SciTopics is designed to be a starting point for researchers to gain an introductory overview of a particular topic, while also identifying sources for a more in-depth analysis and …
The International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) project develops strategies to preserve and improve access to newspapers from around the globe, working on issues including bibliographic access, copyright, and information dissemination. ICON was officially established in 1999 by 13 charter members and is based at the Center for Research Libraries: “This page of Newspaper digitization projects …
